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“#Schools plan for potential of remote learning into the fall<\/strong>”
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Parents of schoolchildren learning from home shouldn\u2019t necessarily count on reclaiming the dining room table any time soon.<\/p>\n

After seeing two academic years thrown off course by the pandemic, school leaders around the country are planning for the possibility of more distance learning next fall at the start of yet another school year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no illusions that COVID will be eradicated by the time the start of the school year comes up,\u201d said William \u201cChip\u201d Sudderth III, a spokesperson for Durham, North Carolina schools, whose students have been out of school buildings since March.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden has made\u00a0reopening schools<\/a>\u00a0a top priority, but administrators say there is much to consider as new strains of the coronavirus app<\/a>ear and teachers wait their turn for vaccinations.<\/p>\n

And while many parents are demanding that schools fully reopen, others say they won\u2019t feel safe sending children back to classrooms until vaccines are available to even young students. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government\u2019s top public health expert, said late last month the Biden administration hopes to\u00a0begin vaccinating\u00a0<\/a>children by late spring or early summer.<\/p>\n

By then, districts will be deep into preparations for the next school year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as 2021-22, at least some part of that school year is likely still going to be pandemic response-related on the assumption that children won\u2019t have access to the vaccine, or at least many won\u2019t,\u201d said Superintendent Brian Woods, of Northside Independent School District, among the largest districts in Texas.<\/p>\n

That could mean a more teacher-friendly version of the mix of in-person and remote learning happening now, one that doesn\u2019t require teachers to simultaneously instruct two groups. That could be accomplished either by splitting staffing or rearranging schedules, he said, adding longer term may see an all-remote option for students who have moved on permanently from traditional school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be some element of the genie not being able to be put back in the bottle,\u201d Woods said. \u201cI think that there now will always be a group of families who want a virtual option. \u2026 We know we\u2019re able to, but are we willing to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Faced with the same reality, California\u2019s West Contra Costa Unified School District is planning a new K-12 Virtual Academy for 2021-22.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing that we have learned during the pandemic is that teaching and learning is now different, and it will not fully be what we used to think was `normal\u2019 ever again,\u201d read the January agenda item before the Board of Education.<\/p>\n

The pivot to distance learning last march has proved a lifeline for the education system, but concerns have grown with each passing month about the effects on\u00a0racial inequities<\/a>, students\u2019 academic\u00a0performance<\/a>, attendance and their overall\u00a0well being<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Durham, North Carolina, schools \u2014 which has been fully remote since March \u2014 announced last month that it would remain that way through the end of the current academic year.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, Sudderth said, \u201cthe prevalence of the disease will determine what we are able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guideline for whether the 32,000-student district could move from remote to hybrid learning in January was a testing positivity rate below 4%. But it\u2019s unclear whether that metric or others that until now have been set by states or districts will hold.<\/p>\n

Biden, in an early executive order, directed his education secretary to provide \u201cevidence-based guidance\u201d and advice to schools to safely conduct in-person learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping that we don\u2019t have to do hybrid, but I don\u2019t want to be in a position where we haven\u2019t thought it all through,\u201d said Eva Moskowitz, whose 47 Success Academy Charter Schools enroll 20,000 students in New York City.<\/p>\n

Success students have been signing in for full days of live remote instruction on school-provided laptops and tablets since the beginning of the school year, an exhausting undertaking that Moskowitz plans to end for the current school year on May 28. The 2021-22 school year will then begin Aug. 2, possibly in a hybrid format.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly don\u2019t know what the chances are\u201d of continuing remote learning into the next school year, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLogic would tell me that we shouldn\u2019t have to, but my knowledge of government makes me a little more hesitant,\u201d she said, noting the sometimes conflicting guidance from the city and state and the slow start to the rollout of vaccines.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed that schools in the nation\u2019s largest school district are \u201cgoing to be back full-strength in September.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone wants to be back,\u201d he\u2019s said.<\/p>\n

But the head of the powerful teachers\u2019 union, Michael Mulgrew, says it\u2019s too soon to commit. Schools currently are providing some in-person classes to elementary and pre-K students who want them. A plan announced Monday by De Blasio will\u00a0reopen middle school buildings<\/a>\u00a0Feb. 25 but there is no plan yet for high schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a goal of mine, but I can\u2019t say they\u2019re going to open\u201d the United Federation of Teachers president said in an interview. His view of the mayor\u2019s pledge: \u201cThis is not about what you want. This is about what you can do safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chancellor Richard Carranza acknowledged that while the goal is in-person school, distance learning \u201cis going to stay with us\u201d past the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at this being a component,\u201d he said during a news<\/a> conference Monday with de Blasio.<\/p>\n

Mulgrew said it will take more than teacher vaccines to open schools fully and safely.<\/p>\n

He noted that scientists aren\u2019t yet clear on whether vaccinated people might still be able to spread the virus, even if they aren\u2019t sickened themselves. And he wonders how comfortable families will feel about having unvaccinated children and young teens begin the new year unvaccinated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where it gets tough. So how do you say you\u2019re opening in September when we need to get these questions answered?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

A parent coalition in Evanston, Illinois, has asked Superintendent Eric Witherspoon what assurances he could give that Evanston Township High School will provide in-person learning in the 2021-22 academic year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are witnessing a real crisis in our community,\u201d Laurel O\u2019Sullivan, the parent of an Evanston high school junior, said by phone. \u201cWe are a coalition that includes medical and mental health experts who are, in their practices in the community, daily seeing kids experiencing a huge surge in mental and emotional health crises. \u2026 It\u2019s a social<\/a>, emotional and academic crisis that we\u2019re seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district did not respond to a request for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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